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Green Stain Fungi
1 species
Seaver ex Ramamurthi, Korf & L.R. Batra 1958. A genus of about 23 small blue-green cup fungi on decayed wood. Most species produce xylindein, a pigment that stains wood blue-green.
Fruiting body: small turquoise to blue-green cups or discs on a short stem, on barkless decayed wood. Wood: stained blue-green. Spores: small, hyaline, fusiform to cylindric. The two common temperate species, C. aeruginascens and C. aeruginosa, are separated only by microscopy.
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